Research Article
Using Finite Forkable DEVS for Decision-Making Based on Time Measured with Uncertainty
@ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.24-8-2015.2261152, author={Damian Vicino and Olivier Dalle and Gabriel Wainer}, title={Using Finite Forkable DEVS for Decision-Making Based on Time Measured with Uncertainty}, journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems}, volume={3}, number={9}, publisher={ACM}, journal_a={INIS}, year={2015}, month={8}, keywords={devs, uncertainty, metrology, time interval}, doi={10.4108/eai.24-8-2015.2261152} }
- Damian Vicino
Olivier Dalle
Gabriel Wainer
Year: 2015
Using Finite Forkable DEVS for Decision-Making Based on Time Measured with Uncertainty
INIS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.24-8-2015.2261152
Abstract
The time-line in Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is a sequence of events defined in a numerable subset of R+. When it comes from an experimental measurement, the timing of these events has a limited precision. This precision is usually well-known and documented for each instruments and procedures used for collecting experimental datas. Therefore, these instruments and procedures produce measurement results expressed using values each associated with an uncertainty quantification, given by uncertainty intervals. Tools have been developed in Continuous Systems modeling for deriving the uncertainty intervals of the final results corresponding to the propagation of the uncertainty intervals being evaluated. These tools cannot be used in DES as they are defined, and no alternative tools that would apply to DES have been developed yet. In this paper, we propose simulation algorithms, based on the Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) formalism, that can be used to simulate and obtain every possible output and state trajectories of simulations that receive input values with uncertainty quantification. Then, we present a subclass of DEVS models, called Finite Forkable DEVS (FF-DEVS), that can be simulated by the proposed algorithms. This subclass ensures that the simulation is forking only a finite number of processes for each simulation step. Finally, we discuss the simulation of a traffic light model and show the trajectories obtained when it is subject to input uncertainty.
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